Amelco Industries has maximized the number of mattress innerspring units in its roll packs using a speciality kraft paper produced by Sweden-based Mondi Dyns. The result of using the spring pack paper, dubbed Advantage MF SpringPack Plus, ...
Tags: Speciality Kraft Paper, Packaging
The Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) has announced plans to buy 50% stake in Adeptio Group’s, which controls the Kuwait Food Company (Americana). However, financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Saudi Arabia's ...
Tags: Kuwait Food, Food
DSM introduces a new range of freeze-dried cultures for set yogurt formats at Gulfood Manufacturing. The new Delvo® cultures allow for more texture and flavor variations in set yogurts and result in reduced levels of liquid whey over ...
Equipment spending by semiconductor chip manufacturers, a key industrial market for vendors of both lithography and laser-based wafer processing systems, will reach $32 billion in 2010 – more than double the 2009 figure. ...
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Fast-food giant McDonald's Corp. said it would close about 350 restaurants due to the falling sales in Q1. Sales in the Asia-Pacific and Middle East region dropped 8.3 percent, helping bring overall global sales down 2.3 percent, ...
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Dutch brewer Heineken has revamped its leadership teams and regional strategy in a bid to improve revenues. Several executives will leave the group as it plans to restructure its business to focus around four geographic regions. This ...
The World Gold Council reported that gold jewelry demand by weight rose 1 percent year on year to 566.9 tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2014, while the value of gold jewelry demand slipped 5 percent to $22.2 billion. Gold jewelry demand for ...
Tags: Gold Jewelry, Jewelry
The Middle East region is rich energy reserves and energy exports as the main support base while industrial production is weak. Middle East countries need to import large quantities of industrial products each year. Huge market demands make ...
Tags: single power machines, strong power, lower noise, Transportation
One of Saudi Arabia’s largest food producing firms Savola Group has entered the final round of negotiations with Takween Advanced Industries for the sale of its packaging unit, Takween. Savola had announced the signing of a ...
Tags: food, retailing, Agriculture
Kumho's Marshal Tires brand has launched a new website for the Middle East region. Marshal Tires, a brand of the Kumho Tire Co., will expand its reach in the Middle East with a new website designed for that region. Alireza Moaref, ...
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The Middle East region is rich energy reserves and energy exports as the main support base while industrial production is weak. Middle East countries need to import large quantities of industrial products each year. Huge market demands make ...
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Brazilian food company BRF, a producer of frozen foods under Sadia brand in the Middle East, has opened new $160m production plant in Kizad, Abu Dhabi. The plant will be capable of producing around 70 thousand tonnes of food products ...
Tags: frozen foods, Agriculture
American multinational company Berkshire Hathaway has signed a franchise agreement with US-based food company Bajco Group to open close to 20 Dairy Queen fast food brand outlets in UAE next year. Under this agreement, Berkshire Hathaway ...
Tags: Dairy Queen, fast food brand, Agriculture
“Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) chemical and petrochemical producers have reduced energy consumption per ton by 8% over the last two years through technical renovations,” says a sustainability report. According to the Gulf ...
Kodak will be doing the first placement of its Prosper 6000c press in the Europe, Africa and Middle East Region (EAMER) at UAE-based Dubai Media (DMI). DMI will use the press for its Smart Printing Services initiative in the UAE with ...
Tags: Prosper 6000c, digital printing, Agriculture